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Clarence P. Hinshaw

Clarence Preston Hinshaw was judge and later solicitor of Chapel Hill's recorder's court and for many years the town attorney of Chapel Hill. He died of a heart attack at his home on Eastwood Lake in August 1954, and his funeral was held at the University Methodist Church.

Source: DigitalNC: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 12, 1954, p. 8 (Funeral Services Conducted Clarence P. Hinshaw)

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  1. Chapel Hill citizens petition the aldermen for a recorder's court A petition signed by more than 100 citizens asking for an election on a recorder's court for Chapel Hill and the area within five miles was presented to the aldermen, who put off action for two weeks. By the end of August the project was stalled after the petition's sponsor found that a special act of the legislature would be needed first. People: Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 17, 1928, p. 1
  2. Aldermen choose the officers of Chapel Hill's new recorder's court A week after voters approved a recorder's court 93 to 8, the board of aldermen named C. P. Hinshaw recorder, B. D. Sawyer prosecuting attorney and Ruby Ross clerk. The court was to sit in the upstairs room of the town hall and hold its first session on Monday, June 3. People: Bonner D. Sawyer, Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 17, 1929, p. 1
  3. The Chapel Hill recorder's court is established Town voters approved a recorder's court 93 to 8 on May 7, 1929, the aldermen named its first recorder, C. P. Hinshaw, with a prosecuting attorney and clerk on May 13, and the court began to function on June 1, holding its first session on Monday, June 3. It heard misdemeanors from Chapel Hill Township, at first every Monday morning and by 1930 on Saturdays. The judge was elected by town voters from the municipal election of May 1931; Lefler and Wager describe the court sitting every Tuesday, with the clerk and prosecutor named by the aldermen. People: Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 219 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1929, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 7, 1929, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 22, 1930, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 17, 1931, p. 1
  4. Chapel Hill's new recorder's court holds its first session The recorder's court, Chapel Hill's new court for minor criminal cases, sat for the first time in the Town Hall on the morning of June 3, 1929, with Recorder C. P. Hinshaw on the bench. Six cases were tried and three continued; the fines went to the county school fund and the costs to the town. People: Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 7, 1929, p. 1
  5. Chapel Hill's recorder's court moves into the old Pickwick Theatre E. Carrington Smith, manager of the Carolina Theatre, lent the old Pickwick Theatre to Recorder Hinshaw for the town court, which had outgrown its quarters in the town hall, with sessions to be held there from the following Monday on. People: E. Carrington Smith, Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 14, 1930, p. 2
  6. A Black janitor shot by a Chapel Hill policeman is tried in recorder's court Arthur Barbee, a Black janitor whom Policeman Wright had shot in the leg on September 30, 1929, and who spent about three months in Lincoln Hospital, was tried before Judge Hinshaw for possessing liquor and resisting an officer; the officers testified he broke away and struck Wright, who said he fired in self-defense, while Barbee denied the liquor was his or that he struck the officer. The court suspended judgment on the liquor charge on payment of costs and ordered Barbee to pay half his hospital bill, the town paying the other half. People: Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 28, 1930, p. 5
  7. The Junior Order council at Chapel Hill grows to 109 members and sets up a jobs committee Davie Council No. 52 of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics grew from 20 to 109 members in three months and appointed a vocation committee to find work for members out of jobs, while another committee collected clothing for the poor of Chapel Hill and the country around it. People: Luther James Phipps, S. A. Nathan, John M. Foushee, Clarence P. Hinshaw, B. J. HowardThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 28, 1930, p. 6
  8. Chapel Hill's recorder's court reports on its first 22 months From its start on June 1, 1929, to March 31, 1931, the recorder's court tried 780 cases, only five of which were appealed and one reversed. It took in $5,294 in costs against $2,914 in expenses, leaving $2,480 for the town, and paid $3,221 in fines into the county school fund; because Chapel Hill cases no longer went to Hillsboro, Superior Court terms there had shrunk from about five days to three. People: Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 17, 1931, p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill re-elects its aldermen in a record town vote Chapel Hill voters returned the sitting board of aldermen and Mayor Zeb P. Council, and chose C. P. Hinshaw over L. J. Phipps by 37 votes for judge of the Recorder's Court. The 730 ballots, cast in the school athletic building known as the "tin can," were far more than in any earlier town election, the Weekly said. People: Brodie Thompson, R. D. W. Connor, Ralph M. Trimble, Peter L. Burch, Zeb P. Council, Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1931, p. 1
  10. The log cabin of Tony and Liza Jenkins on Rosemary Lane is torn down In mid-September 1932 one of the oldest structures in Chapel Hill, the cabin on Rosemary Lane that was for many years the home of a Black couple, Tony Jenkins and his wife Liza, was demolished. It was built of hewn logs mortised together with mortar in the cracks, and the lot's owner, C. P. Hinshaw, planned to put up garages there. People: Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 16, 1932, p. 5
  11. Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Foushee and elects R. H. Wettach alderman In the town election Mayor John M. Foushee was returned without opposition, P. L. Burch (268 votes) and R. J. M. Hobbs (207) were re-elected aldermen, and law professor R. H. Wettach (236) won the third seat from Brodie S. Thompson (174). L. J. Phipps kept the recorder's court judgeship with 201 votes to 169 for C. P. Hinshaw and 102 for Roy W. McGinnis. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Brodie Thompson, Luther James Phipps, Robert H. Wettach, Peter L. Burch, Clarence P. Hinshaw, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1935, p. 1
  12. Chapel Hill aldermen elect C. P. Hinshaw town attorney and Roy McGinnis prosecutor The aldermen nominated C. P. Hinshaw and H. A. Whitfield for town attorney and Roy McGinnis and John Manning for prosecuting attorney in the recorder's court. Both ballots split three to three, and Mayor John M. Foushee broke the ties for Hinshaw and McGinnis. People: Henry A. Whitfield, John M. Foushee, Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 28, 1937, p. 2
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  1. The aldermen's committee holds hearings on the West Franklin Street paving assessments Owners told the committee they had been assured in 1927 that the charge would be far below the $7.70 a front foot finally levied, and Mrs. J. P. Nesbitt testified that her husband had been told the assessments were meant to get Black residents off West Franklin Street. Former mayor Zeb P. Council answered in a letter that the board of 1927 had acted on a valid petition; the committee members signaled that they thought the levy too high and might seek an act of the legislature to validate relief. People: John Manning, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, John Caldwell, Frederick O. Bowman, John L. Caldwell, Zeb P. Council, Clarence P. HinshawThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 29, 1937, p. 2
  2. The recorder's court acquits liquor defendants because officers had not sworn to the warrants on the Bible Judge Andrew McIntosh threw out the evidence against three filling-station operators near Chapel Hill, from whose places officers had taken about 72 pints of liquor, after defense lawyers C. P. Hinshaw and L. J. Phipps showed the search warrants had not been sworn on the Bible as a statute of about 1776 still required. Court clerk Moody Durham then bought Bibles for the court, the police stations and the justice of the peace, and witnesses kissed the book in court on July 11. People: Luther James Phipps, Moody W. Durham, Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 7, 1939, p. 1
  3. The Orange County board of elections orders a re-listing of voters, with new registration in three precincts Given the choice by the 1939 election law between re-listing and a complete new registration, the county board of elections decided to re-list voters, ordering a new registration only in the University, Efland and Caldwell precincts, and voters had to declare a party to vote in the May 25 primary. Chairman C. A. Bivens, successor to the late O. L. Thomas, and secretary C. P. Hinshaw set registration for April 27, May 4 and May 11. People: Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 12, 1940, p. 1
  4. Governor Hoey appoints Orange County's draft board Under the new selective service law Governor Clyde Hoey named Clarence Pickard of Chapel Hill and Owen Robertson and Garland O. Reitzel of Hillsborough to Orange County's draft board, with Dr. Bryan N. Roberts as its physician and C. P. Hinshaw as appeal agent. Robertson became chairman; the members served without pay, worked from Hillsborough, and were to classify the county's registrants from their questionnaires. People: Clarence Pickard, Garland O. Reitzel, Owen S. Robertson, Clarence P. HinshawThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 11, 1940, p. 1
  5. Orange County men register for the first peacetime draft On October 16 men aged 21 through 35 registered under the selective service law, with election officials and unpaid volunteers as registrars. In Chapel Hill 1,868 signed up: 966 University students at Woollen Gymnasium, 331 at the Town Hall, 203 at the elementary school and 368 at the Black Elks Lodge; Carrboro counted 275, and the south end of the county under C. P. Hinshaw 2,287. More than 3,800 registered across the county, about 3,000 of whom belonged to Orange. People: Francis Foster Bradshaw, Clarence P. Hinshaw, Kenneth JonesThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 18, 1940, p. 1
  6. Chapel Hill sets a one-dollar penalty for overtime parking A new ordinance created a town traffic bureau, headed by the chief of police, that collected a flat $1 charge in place of court costs for overtime parking and four other violations, among them riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. By late April 119 drivers had paid, the limit on the business block had been cut from two hours to one, and the Weekly reported many more free spaces on Franklin Street. People: William T. Sloan, Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 25, 1941, p. 1
  7. Chapel Hill aldermen begin to study extending the town limits With residential colonies such as Westwood, Forest Hills, the Country Club section and Davie Woods grown up on the town's fringes, the aldermen asked Alderman F. O. Bowman and Town Attorney C. P. Hinshaw to find out how the town limits could be extended. The Weekly expected an enabling act and a vote of residents to be needed. People: Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 24, 1941, p. 1
  8. Orange County's World War II draft board is named again for the peacetime draft By August 5, 1948, the board that ran Orange County's World War II draft, Samuel W. Hughes, Garland O. Reitzel and A. Clarence Pickard, had been recommended to Governor Cherry to run the first peacetime draft, with C. P. Hinshaw as appeal agent and Dr. D. Efland Forrest as medical adviser. Registration of men 18 through 25 was set to begin August 30. People: Samuel Wellwood Hughes, Clarence Pickard, Garland O. Reitzel, Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 5, 1948, p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill aldermen name John Q. LeGrand town attorney The Chapel Hill aldermen elected John Q. LeGrand, prosecutor of the county recorder's court and a former legislator from New Hanover County, as town attorney from January 1. He succeeded C. P. Hinshaw, who gave up the post for his health but stayed on as town court prosecutor. People: Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 13, 1951, p. 1
  10. Clarence P. Hinshaw, former Chapel Hill recorder's court judge and town attorney, dies Clarence Preston Hinshaw, once judge and solicitor of the Chapel Hill Recorder's Court and for many years the town attorney, died of a heart attack at his home on Eastwood Lake. His funeral was held in the University Methodist Church. People: Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 12, 1954, p. 8

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